Project description
Interdisciplinary study of remittances and global justice
The global remittances economy involves one billion people (200 million senders and 800 million receivers). It exceeds a whopping EUR 1 trillion annually, which is much more than the official development assistance to developing countries. Remittances are lifelines for the receivers. The ERC-funded JUSTREMIT project will investigate why remittances are absent in liberal global justice debates. First, it will evaluate contemporary global justice theory from the perspective of remittances and the agency of the global poor. To shed light on the ethical, cultural and religious practices behind remittances, the project will conduct an ethnographic study of the remitter/receiver relationship. With the findings, the project will theorise global justice in a new way.
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ERC-STG - Starting Grant
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2311 EZ Leiden
Netherlands
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2311 EZ Leiden
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